Usually means: Top part of a ladder.
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  1. runghead: Wordnik
  2. runghead: Wiktionary
  3. Runghead: Dictionary.com
  4. Runghead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. runghead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Runghead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. runghead: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Runghead: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (shipbuilding) The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.

Similar:
rung, string, touch, standard, rasing, raising plate, top and but, berthing, throat, floor, more...

Opposite:
footman, base, bottom, low-level worker

Types:
rung-head, more...

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Similar:
rung, string, touch, standard, rasing, raising plate, top and but, berthing, throat, floor, more...

Opposite:
footman, base, bottom, low-level worker

Types:
rung-head, more...



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